Time for the White House to rein in Michelle Obama's out-of-control spending

The Daily Telegraph (London) ^

[kelsiejackson]

With the United States facing a national debt of more than $14 trillion, the largest since World War Two, wouldn’t it make sense for the White House itself to start trimming its own spending? A good place to begin cutting would be Michelle Obama’s rather generous vacation programme. Keith Coffler, who edits the influential White House Dossier, notes that Michelle Obama spent no less than 42 days on vacation over the past year – that’s one in every nine days.

[kelsiejackson]

I'm sure this guy is a racist. Why else would he be demanding a privileged minority find something else to occupy her wasted time besides wantonly spending (wasting?) taxpayer dollars?

[ilovesarah2012]

The Queen has to enjoy it while she can.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Asking Barack Obama to control Michelle’s ‘out of control spending’ is like inviting Jesse James to work at your bank.

[RC2]

But....but....she believes she is Queen. Doesn’t she have the right to spend as much as she feels she deserves?

[americanophile]

So out of her 365 days of not working, she spent 42 on vacation? Must be nice.

(Don't give me the 'she's a mom, that's her job' business either, because she has her own personal village to raise those two kids; a staff of dozens and of course granny there too).

[americanophile]

I would trust Jesse over Barack.

[shield]

[mojito]

How come we only get honest reporting about the 0bama’s from the London papers?

The Telegraph and the Daily Mail have no trouble telling the truth as they see it, and what they see isn't flattering.

Even so-called conservative US dailies (I guess that means the WSJ) never get really rough on how they conduct themselves, although they do rip up on the policies.

It's more than past time for gloves-off treatment of this pair.

[corlorde]

This administration is maddening.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html

[FrdmLvr]

So out of her 365 days of not working, she spent 42 on vacation? Must be nice.

LOL! Good one!

[mardi59]

Spendzilla is the worst first lady we’ve had. The libs moaned and groaned about Nancy Reagan and the china, but this beast can waste 10m and not a peep from the lib hypocrits.

[dragonblustar]

I’d call her Marie Antoinette but she doesn’t want us to eat cake.

[presently no screen name]

She’s the epitome of someone who lacks integrity.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bfl.

[kelsiejackson]

That's the saddest part, isn't it? This country hosts the largest agglomeration of media on the planet, and not one of them--whether out of salivating love or fear of "you racist" tar and feathering--is willing to "hold the national leadership accountable."

Welcome to Airstrip One.





Orthodoxy is not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconscious.
-- George Orwell: 1984

[silverleaf]

Now another one- Barry is coming home tonight, she is staying over one extra night ...so again with the second jets and all that expense

For one more lobsta dnner?

[liberalh8ter]

Give Moochelle a break. Until she got ahold of the taxpayer's credit card, she was ashamed of her Country and its flag.

[gusty]

Obama wanted to be like Lincoln, well here it is. Their wive’s are out of control spenders.

[silverleaf]

“Let them eat carrot sticks!

Moochelle Antoinette the First

[mojito]

It would be in the public interest to have the exact numbers provided by the White House so that Americans know precisely how much of their money is being spent on vacations.

I'm sure those numbers will be right up. And I also heard that the NYT's was working on a big story on this very issue. Yeah, that's what I heard. /s